Fedora Core 2 Update: kernel-2.6.6-1.435

Marc Lucke marc at marcsnet.com
Fri Jun 18 06:55:19 UTC 2004


Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:

> At 21:04 6/17/2004, Ed K. wrote:
>
>> I can't wait for ftp to retire for organized archives. http and 
>> bittorrent
>> should be all that is needed. no http header equivalent for ftp.
>
>
> Just curious... I thought FTP was significantly more efficient for 
> transferring files...? Yes/no/why?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
FTP sucks for transferring many files.  HTTP has something chunked 
transfers or something (?) and persistent connections and you don't need 
to worry about passive or active or firewalls, binary or text or 
anything.  P2P technology is even better because everyone is the 
server.  FTP is still OK, I guess, for large file transfer.

Marc





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